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Dirk Diggler and Roller Girl on the set!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/

No I don't do IT work.

As to your laptop VPN suggestion, most facilities firewall off the wireless and internal networks from themselves.

"I can has my files" is exactly why I use services like Google and Dropbox, sorry you disagree. I'm not a tinfoil hat crazy as you appear to be so I don't mind someone controling my data. In all honesty I don't see any difference between Google and a financial institution when it comes to personal data. Both can be good and bad.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley is a good movie on the whole thing. Somewhat historically accurate for the most part.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460989/
The English have a long tradition of being oppressive cunts..the current situation is just the latest bout.

i would say that a lot of issues goes away ones one look at what money is supposed to represent...

Not really, at least not to me. To me money is meant to facilitate or make easier the exchange of goods and services.

Reminds me of a scene in the movie "Phenomenon" where John Travolta's character plays a garage owner and someone who drills wells comes into the garage to pick up his truck which was being repaired but says he doesn't have the money to pay for it. Travolta saying he needs solar panels he was given as a birthday present installed on his roof. The driller asks what's that got to do with his truck and Travolta says the installer needs a well drilled so if he drills the well the installer will install the panels and he'll fix the truck in return.

In these exchanges all three were voluntary, fixing the truck, drilling the well, and installing the panels. When government takes money people work to earn that is not voluntary. Related to that but applicable to today, today I heard a report on CNN about how because of the recession more people planted gardens this year than have in years. I wasn't impressed but the report said that 19% of those who planted gardens this year this year was the first year they planted a garden. What some are doing is exchanging produce, what one person doesn't grow someone else does and they trade what they have for what they want.

Unfortunately we haven't gotten as much rain this year and it's been cooler than previous years, I don't know if that's why but my garden didn't do so well this year. My garden did much better last year, I grew enough to eat one or two meals every day for about 3 months, but this year I had lettuce for salads and sandwiches but not what tomatoes I got have been small. So I haven't been able to share much, only about 1/4 what I shared last year. Of course I got some acorn squash, onions, and radishes I didn't grow last year. But my corn and carrots didn't sprout.

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The whole 'man-rating' concept is really bogus: the shuttle couldn't be called 'man-rated' in any real sense when it kills its crew one flight in fifty.

Only those who would be on board can make the decision on whether something is "man rated". And a number of astronauts have answered "Yes" even after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Some 15 years later they were still saying "yes" after the Space Shuttle Columbia accident. As Morgan Freeman's character in "Chain Reaction" says in testimony before a congress subcommittee death is a price some are willing to make for human progress.

those kind of changes hardly register when compared to NASA's record of spending billions of dollars and several years to achieve... nothing.

NASA achieved nothing? After Russia was the first nation to put an object into orbit with the Sputnik program in 1957, because of JFK the US was the first nation to land a person on the moon with the Apollo 11 launch on 16 July 1969.

I wouldn't call those, or the Space Shuttle, nothing but NASA hasn't done much since then.

I'm willing to be convinced that NASA really _need_ a huge, expensive launcher of their own, but I've seen no evidence so far that it will prove cheaper than buying launches elsewhere.

I'm sitting on the fence as to whether a heavy launch vehicle is needed, but if so then instead of the US designing and building new ones either the US Saturn V or Russian Energia can be used.

Falcon

Well at least MS ESP isn't as bad as Vista, ESP edition. You want to know how bad that was? Well remember that movie Scanners. Yeah, it was kind of like that.

For the record that music is from the movie Where Eagles Dare , starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. It's a pretty entertaining WWII yarn, especially when the music swells and you hear that iconic drum roll. I didn't know about the movie until late one night when I was in my twenties I caught it on cable and said, "Hey, that's the music from Wolfenstein!" It's one of my favorites now.

When Windows 95 was released, there really was a whole bunch of crazy hoopla. Stores were having midnight sales, where they would open at midnight just to sell Windows 95 as soon as they were legally permitted. People were standing in lines outside the stores. (Heck, I read in the newspaper that one guy stood in the line and bought Windows 95, without even owning a computer. He just wanted to join in the hoopla!)

When I read this, my first thought was: they are trying to gin up the Windows 95 excitement again. And my second thought was: good luck with that. The world is a different place now; Windows 7 looks like a nice upgrade to Windows, but it's really hard to imagine people getting really excited about it. And many of the people who could potentially get excited by the improvements in Windows 7 have been running Mac OS X for years now. I predict the hoped-for tidal wave of excitement won't materialize.

You know, though, I have friends who work at Microsoft. If they can get some free goodies by having a "Windows 7" party, and if they invite me, I'll go. Any excuse for a party with my friends is good enough for me. I'll still run Linux on most of my computers, just like I do now, but why wouldn't I go to a party? (In addition to the whole computer thing, we could watch movies! An obvious choice: Se7en.)

steveha

Hm...I guess I must have missed House Party 2-6.

I want to be Pain Free too!!!

You want to be a Bond villain?

"[T]here's no point living if you can't feel alive".

There are plenty of ugly symmetric people, and quite a few attractive asymmetric ones, so I'm not sure this argument really flies. It's just one more criterion, like having an unblemished skin, a healthy build, hair, etc, etc...

You need to go back about 15-20 years before Smallville. Hint: Kent's the character's first name.

ANd I thought it was fistion:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

And I'm pretty sure Colossus is Russian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(comics)

I'm done...for now.

See Mask. There's a scene there which fits this quite well: The main protagonist, "Rocky", is asked by his blind friend to describe what vision is like. As I recall, he's stuck for an answer at first, but later figures out an anology: he has her hold a rock that's been heated. She finds it too hot to handle, of course, and he describes this as "red". Similarly, he uses "blue" for a rock that had been chilled, and "green" for a rock that was lukewarm. While there are certainly limits to this, I'm sure people can come up with ways to extend this sort of "tactile" description, since there are three other classes of senses one can draw on.

Don't we already know who the jerk is?

Then you must remember the guy from the Mac ads as a fellow corridorholic in the best example of a science fiction corridor yet created.

Well, 2001: A Space Odyssey did have nothing but flashing lights that everyone stared at for what seemed like hours.

At least it seemed to take that long, and I wasn't even stoned!

Remember when they found those skinless bodies in the tree in that movie and one of the guys said it was probably guerrillas who did it? Well, as a kid, I thought he was talking about gorillas.

Martin Short made the same mistake when Kurt Russel told him to watch out for the guerrillas.

I'm familiar with "Moonraker", it's just that the weapon in "Die Another Day" is remarkably similar to the aforementioned solar power plant. :)

Yea, if I recall right the satellite in "Die Another Day" was even supposed to be an energy plant. My comment about "Moonraker" was to point out there was a Bond space movie before "Die Another Day". There was actually two, "Diamonds Are Forever", made in 1971, was about a "SPECTRE plot to build a satellite with laser beams capable of destroying weapons on the ground."

BTW, did you see "Casino Royale"? If so what did you think of it and Daniel Craig? Though I liked Pierce Brosnan I saw the remake of it, the original "Casino Royale" was a 007 spoof made in 1967, and thought it was good. It took me back to "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" where he was just getting his license to kill and there wasn't a lot of high tech gadgets.

Oh, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was the only Bond movie where Bond was married. He got married at the end of the movie and as he was driving away from the reception his bride was shot and killed.

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Orgazmo in space? Trey Parker I am looking at you!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/

You raise an "interesting" train of thought in my mind.

Encoding in 720p x264 you get something like 45 minutes in 1.1 GB. This gives you 60,900 episodes per 4U unit or 609,000 episodes per 40U rack.

In 1080p x264 you get something like 45 minutes in about 2.5 GB. This is 27,000 episodes per 4U unit or 270,000 episodes per 40U rack.

Assuming 22 episodes per season and a five year average run time, you end up with 220 episodes per show (typical science fiction shows).
Assuming 5 shows per week, 40 weeks a year, 10 year run time, you end up with 2,000 episodes per show (typical soaps).

So you could easily store 100 full sci-fi shows and 100 full soaps on in one rack (that'd be 222,000 episodes), all stored in glorius 1080p.

IMDb lists the following statistics:

452,982 movies released theatrically.
792,565 TV episodes.
75,316 made for TV movies.
61,440 TV series.
77,624 direct to video movies.

Leaving out "TV series" (they average 12.9 episodes/series, which seems reasonable with the amount of cancelled series) I'll make the following assumptions about average run time:
Theatrical releases: 120 minutes
TV episodes: 35 minutes
TV movies: 90 minutes
Direct to video: 100 minutes

That's a total of 96,638,455 minutes. Encoding that in 720p would require 2,362,274 GB or 5,315,117 GB for 1080p.

What's my point? Well, for one thing you couldn't ever watch it, as it's 183 years, so no, that wasn't my point ;)

That it is entirely within the realm of feasibility to offer downloads of every single movie and tv-show on IMDb from a hardware point of view. One of the complaints I've heard from the production companies is that it would be impossible to set up the hardware needed for it. Even at Sun's prices, you'd "only" need to pay 10 million dollars to store everything in both 720p and 1080p quality. Set up redundant servers in 10 different locations, 5 in the US, 5 in Europe, and you're still only out 100 million dollars.

From a cultural point of view, think of all the things that are lost when the copyright holders let these things rot away on shelves, throw it out or it's lost in some kind of calamity. And this is just movies and tv-shows. Add in music and news and I suspect you could easily get hugely redundant back-ups of it all for 1 billion dollars. Even if you had to replace the storage arrays every 3 years, it's still really really cheap. Figure twice that for maintenance, and we have an annual cost of about a billion dollars - cheap when we're saving all knowledge for our successors. That's roughly the cost of building 125 miles of rural freeway in Michigan. It'd be cheap at 10x the price. And in ten years - we will probably still be using high bit rate encoding (1080p+), but will the cost of storage still be as high? I suspect it'll slowly fall, slightly faster than inflation.

Having to reencode everything from time to time, would obviously take a huge amount of time, but that is the price we pay for progress. On the other hand, even with 1:1 encoding time, it'd only take 183 computer-years to do it.

Imagine what it would be like if 25 years from now your kids could, at the touch of a button, gain access to every bit of entertainment and news as from the last 25 years. I don't mean going to Wikipedia and looking up The Terminator but actually watch the film, read all the news about it, as it looked at the time, five years on, seven years on after Terminator 2: Judgement Day had its effect on the new franchise etc.

Imagine them not having to settle for what history books said happened in the year 2010 or about specific events in that year, but be able to pull up every single news article and tv news report on the subject and make up their own mind, de

So, a real Death Race 2000 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856 ) would have helped Burma Shave ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave)

They already made that James Bond movie

Before "Die Another Day" there was "Moonraker".

Falcon

They already made that James Bond movie

Before "Die Another Day" there was "Moonraker".

Falcon

Where? I don't see any. I see a lot of violence though.

here in Canada we have Showcase, and a few other channels that are barely censored, maybe its different in the US.

Right now as I'm typing this I have "Mr. Majestyk" playing on DVD. It's almost over, then I might put "Casablanca" in the player. Or another of the hundreds of movies on media I own.

This is exactly my point, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want, why do you care that cable TV is censored?

Where? I don't see any. I see a lot of violence though.

here in Canada we have Showcase, and a few other channels that are barely censored, maybe its different in the US.

Right now as I'm typing this I have "Mr. Majestyk" playing on DVD. It's almost over, then I might put "Casablanca" in the player. Or another of the hundreds of movies on media I own.

This is exactly my point, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want, why do you care that cable TV is censored?

They already made that James Bond movie and it was dreadful. It involved an invisible car and Bond surfing on a wave that looked like it came out of a 16bit video game. That's not to say I wouldn't watch a movie based on an awesome space-based solar collector destroying the word but it better be good this time.

They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.

A shame this film didn't win awards, then :) (yes, I know it's not directly about Turing)

They're totally the same, except that Patton was a very public figure, who commanded thousands of men and was immortalized in an Oscar winning movie, while Turing was a spook.

A shame this film didn't win awards, then :) (yes, I know it's not directly about Turing) /P

Hey, what do you have against Mike Rowe? That guy's an American hero. Not only is he the host of Dirty Jobs, one of the few good shows on Discovery channel (the other being Mythbusters), but he's also a very outspoken supporter of the trades and American blue-collar workers. He's even got a website dedicated to the issue of the decline in trades jobs/workers in America, which has been a contributing factor to the collapse of our physical infrastructure.

But, seriously, I absolutely agree with you. The domain name registration system is all fucked up. The registrars (the most successful of which typically have had close ties to the InterNIC/ICANN board) are making a killing already selling virtual goods (it's like printing money). The least they can do is to mitigate domain-squatting and domain-hijacking rather than to cooperate with and try to profit off of helping those scummy companies.

I don't know why being sick of scummy business practices make you a socialist, but if trademarks were abused in the same fashion we'd quickly start running out of legible company or product names. Oh, you want to register a company name that doesn't substitute numbers for letters or incorporate creative misspellings? That will be $5000, please.

I can understand the argument that capitalism is desirable for promoting healthy competition, driving down costs and increases product/service quality. But how do domain squatters/prospectors contribute anything positive to society? By driving the cost of decent domain names up? That benefits only the domain squatters/prospectors. They're the definition of a parasitic establishment—one whose actions benefits only themselves while harming the rest of society and draining its resources.

Disney will let Marvel do what Marvel wants to do because Disney likes money.

You like money? I like money too!
You also like sex? Because then we should hang out...

They probably weren't going to renew those deals anyway.

Marvel has been successful at making its own films, i.e. Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. In fact, they plan on doing a full Avengers movie, with the major characters having their own individual movies along the way to cumulate in a movie containing all of the characters. See this. Note that the second X-Men Origins movie is going to be produced by Marvel, while the first was produced by Sony.

I think that's really what Disney is after. Marvel has a huge line up of characters from which to create unending movie after movie. A a media company, they had the potential to become as big as Disney, but for the teenage/young adult market. But it seems that's been nipped in the bud. Unfortunate.

Anyone who things this is unjust should watch the movie: "In the name of the Father".

Look here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107207/

They threw young kids in jail for decades. No apologies.

My cousin suggests the human race is splitting. I think she might be right. Clearly however there is a dark side and how civil servants can justify what they do sometimes causes me despair. I have never even been to the UK of course.

Don't forget Shining Excalibur Pictures, it was a one off production company created to release KIDS when Disney didn't want the Miramax name on it.

Touchstone Pictures is nothing more than a brand of Disney.
Under this brand, Disney produced :

Starship Troopers, Revelations, Ladykillers, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Apocalypto, The Prestige,The Royal Tenenbaums,Dead Poets Society,The Nightmare Before Christmas ..

See the complete list.

You're gonna do what?!

Kangaroos with stinger missiles?

Prior art I think. Though the Snopes article is funnier.

Nobody said they had to answer anything.

You are of course correct, even I never said that.

What I said was "you will get demands for support". I did not say "obligations".

Or.. are you suggesting that open source projects in the wild do not attract arbitrary expectations of support from the public?

And you assuming the knowledge that "most open source developers do not want arbitrary people to use their software." is absolutely ludicrous.

Understand also, I am not magically inferring to know how every FOSS developer thinks. I can however follow trends.

For example, between the release of Windows Vista in 2006 and the public betas of Windows 7 in 2009, precisely which distribution of Linux or flavor of BSD stepped up to receive the millions of users so generously disenfranchised by Microsoft?

Or, will you claim that Vista was too successfully marketed to compete against, or will you infer that every linux distribution and bsd fork combined fail to make up a large enough slice of the FOSS pie to represent a fair statistical sample of Open Source project behavioral trends? There has to be some justification for your calling my claim "ludicrous".

Open source developers are just developers who are wanting to share their project and its source. Just normal human developers with completely distinct normal human intentions.

I agree with this statement completely, but don't make me quote Agent K about the difference between "a developer" and "developers". If we simply abandoned discerning patterns in how large groups of people behave solely because of how diverse the individuals are, we'd never have developed disciplines like Economics.

My point is that "wanting to share their project and its source" does not imply "with everyone, in a manner 'everyone' will be able to use". A vast majority of open source projects are not accessible to the layman, and I contend this is because most FOSS developers do not want the responsibility of bridging the informational gap to allow users incapable of submitting patches to grok how to utilize the software. The developers instead tend to target themselves as the end-audience.

I am not inferring that such developers are thus selfish or skimping on any sort of socialist obligations. The behavior does lead to the projects having little penetration into mainstream markets, but as you've mentioned the developers are already acting with as much goodwill as we can really ask of them.

I surmise that the true failure here is the lack of incentive to deliver the product in a form non-technical users can consume. What we need is some clever economical carrots here to take the developer beyond their simple motivation to use the software themselves.

Some of the best examples of open source projects enjoying success in the mainstream of their industries include Firefox (funding from agreements with Google provide financial incentives for developers to keep the end-user base strong) and other projects with funding from enterprise versions driving project goals for community versions (Red Hat/Fedora, MySQL, Open Office, etc).

These are also the projects who have surmounted the press challenges cited in TFA.

Mary Poppins? T&A? WIN. (This was in 1981 before she pruned out.)

"The Terminal".

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Don't know if they're all this badass though.

there's already borderline porngraphy on basic cable,

Where? I don't see any. I see a lot of violence though.

I dont see censorship as really being an issue, what is it that you'd like to see/hear more of on TV that you don't already?

Almost all I watch on TV is CNN and the movies I bought and own on tape or DVDs. I watch the History channel some but not more than say 1/2 hour here and there.

When was the last time you said "Man, that episode of Everybody loves Raymond would have been so much better if there was some nice big tits in it... and people saying fuck a lot... yeah.. that'd be cool"

I've never said it, I never watched that show. The last series I watched on TV were "Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "Touched by an Angel", that was about 10 years ago. Right now as I'm typing this I have "Mr. Majestyk" playing on DVD. It's almost over, then I might put "Casablanca" in the player. Or another of the hundreds of movies on media I own.

there's already borderline porngraphy on basic cable,

Where? I don't see any. I see a lot of violence though.

I dont see censorship as really being an issue, what is it that you'd like to see/hear more of on TV that you don't already?

Almost all I watch on TV is CNN and the movies I bought and own on tape or DVDs. I watch the History channel some but not more than say 1/2 hour here and there.

When was the last time you said "Man, that episode of Everybody loves Raymond would have been so much better if there was some nice big tits in it... and people saying fuck a lot... yeah.. that'd be cool"

I've never said it, I never watched that show. The last series I watched on TV were "Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman" and "Touched by an Angel", that was about 10 years ago. Right now as I'm typing this I have "Mr. Majestyk" playing on DVD. It's almost over, then I might put "Casablanca" in the player. Or another of the hundreds of movies on media I own.

Apparently Switzerland, Norway, and Canada have a problem with violent resurrections.

I blame the Nazi zombies.

Have you ever seen

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472062/

There's a funny seen where Joanne Herring, played by a very glamorous Julia Roberts, talks knowlegably about "Dashukas" while she's doing her makeup.

1) Nationality is also a part of 'race'

No, it's not. Race transcends national borders. The Spansih are not a different "race" than the Portuguese. The English aren't a different "race" than the French or Germans. The real genetic divergence (small as it is to begin with) begins when you start looking at Europeans vs. Asians vs. Africans. Then you can start talking about "race" in a meaningful way.

2) The Expulsion was an atrocity. As was the relocation of poland. As was all the shit that happened during WWII. Saying that, or saying one of them was, without mentioning the other, makes the other nothing less than that.

Not everything that happened during WWII was an atrocity. The problem is that equating these events makes them both less meaningful. I don't really comprehend how one could equate them and say they both have to be brought to the same level. I'd much rather be forced to move than exterminated outright, wouldn't you?

3) Do you know which one where sympathizers and which weren't? Which had active roles and which didn't? Saying all Germans deserved everything, what could have been done to them, is as racist as you could get.

First, active vs. passive acceptance of Hitler is a fairly meaningless distinction. He was elected and kept in power precisely because he had the support of the majority of Germans, without which he couldn't have done what he did. Was there a German resistance? Sure. But not one that survived the war. Hitler's response to the July 20th plot assured that. And the failure of the July 20th plot itself demonstrates the support Hitler had.

German Guy: [after getting swallowed by Blob-Homer] What did we Germans ever do to deserve this?
[gets an angry look from his friend]
German Guy: Oh, right.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831240/quotes

4) The GGGP, you where answering to, gave a specific example of poles driving a group out. Nothing more, nothing less. Your "But they deserved it!" was completely offtopic Your "And they could all have been killed instead" even worse.

What I actually said was, "After the shit the Germans pulled, they were lucky they were allowed to live -- period." It was an acknowledgement of reality and of human nature, not a statment of what they "deserved". There are many conditions under which one might say, "Wow! You were lucky you weren't killed!", without actually wishing that on the person. Why? Because one could reasonably make an argument for the elimination of Germany as a nation (i.e., without "East" or "West", and for mass executions of Nazi supporters (which was not without Allied support)). And let's not forget: Obliterating one's vanquished foes is exactly how this kind of thing was handled in days gone by. And even how it was handled by the Germans themselves, on a regional level. (How do you think Britain would've fared, if Germany's invasion was successful?)

Again, in the grand scheme of things, expelling people from a region is a far cry from the kinds of atrocities perpetrated by the Germans. I will say that there's never a justification of the rape of women. But insofar as the expulsion itself? Not really either a surprise or an atrocity, as far as I can tell.

Sounds a bit like parts of the plot of Primer (probably the best film about time-travel there is).

come on, hackers taking over oil rigs (or tankers for that matter?!) Who would make a movie like that? Oh wait... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

It's funny what used to be considered perfectly acceptable tv. I don't know what's worse, the blatant racism of the 70's, or the violence of today's TV shows.

Granted, most of the comments Archie made, are quite reminiscent of things my grandfather would have said, who was born in roughly the same time as Archie's character. While i'm sure it's quite consistent with many people's attitudes, I still find it odd that they would portray it on TV.